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The Styles

There are two major styles of perforated-paper cutting;
the flat style and the layered style.

In the flat style, patterns are cut from a single sheet of paper and the effect is very airy.

Though any pattern can be used, the best designs are open and light - when there is so little paper remaining that you can't tell that it's paper.

In the layered style, simpler patterns are cut out independently, then glued on top of each other for a pyramid effect. Each layer is one row smaller than the previous one. In this technique the best patterns have deep dimension and look like they were carved.

The ladies' magazines of the 1870's showed that the flat pieces were more common for cross patterns, and the layered technique was often used to embellish boxes.

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